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At 10:43 PM 1/17/2002 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>this is another request from it.comp.software.tex: reimplementing

on how many lists are you ?

>xspace. By itself the thing is pretty easy, you just need the
>code:
>
>\catcode`\@=11
>\protected\def\xspace{\futurelet\@let@token\@xspace}
>\def\@xspace{%

this should be configurable so i would opt for another solution; also, it 
should be nillable;

so, before i cook up the solution (using named glyphs btw) i want to know 
if this is the same for all languages, when it should be on / off etc

>so the problem is rather on how to integrate this with the rest of
>ConTeXt: there are some features of ConTeXt (e.g. logos,
>abbreviations) for which obeying spaces should be an option. Right
>now, you have to do something like:
>
>\logo[tempTEX]{\TeX}
>\def\TEX{\tempTEX\xspace}
>
>to achieve the same result.
>
>Any comments?

it should hook into processsynonym but in such a way that it does not break 
other code because synonyms are used (here) for more purposes then you want 
to know.

Hans
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